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...most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre Notes, Oct. 15, 1923 | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

When Does the Goose Creep Into the Flesh? It was nearly half past three in the morning. Somewhere a clock tolled the hour-twelve long strokes. Down the shadow-shrouded stairway moved a skeleton, clad only in a pair of violet pajamas. Softly, sibilantly, the spectre sped. An errant mouse cried out in terror, his hoarse shriek breaking the tense stillness. At the foot of the stairs a single, shining shaft of moonshine drenched the leg of a human being, severed at the knee, lying in a pool of gore. Arsenic Hatpin, gentleman capitalist, inserted a single eyeglass deftly into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Blackjack Fiction | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

This week Stevens will give individual attention to those men who can arrange to go out with him in a pair oared in order to get such points in his system as a longer slide and leg drive and sitting straighter at the catch and finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STEVENS RETAINS MEN FOR ONLY THREE BOATS | 10/8/1923 | See Source »

Princeton faces Johns-Hopkins with a pair of dependable wings and three of its 1922 backfield. But although the Orange and Black shine most brilliantly at the ends and in the ball carrying department, it appears very weak on its line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE AND PRINCETON ARE STRONG FAVORITES TODAY | 10/6/1923 | See Source »

...Squier had nothing but praise for the bravery of the Chinese. Through some blunder, all operating instruments had been left off the relief ship. One Chinaman sat without uttering a word or groan while a doctor cut off three of his toes with a pair of scissors, and after the operation, he thanked the surgeon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: J. B. SQUIER '24 TELLS OF JAPANESE HOLOCAUST | 10/2/1923 | See Source »

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